…a hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas…
…a part of the western Pacific lying between Australia, New Guinea, and Vanuatu, the scene of a naval battle between US and Japanese carriers in 1942…
…a small brightly coloured solitary coral with tentacles that end in small knobs, sometimes found in colder seas…
…a branching pinkish-red horny coral which is used in jewellery…
…a compact coral with a convoluted surface resembling that of the brain…
…a resort city in southwestern Florida, near the mouth of the Caloosahatchee River, southwest of Fort Myers; population 156,835 (est. 2008)…
…a red-flowered heuchera (Heuchera sanguinea) native to the southwestern US, but established elsewhere with many ornamental cultivars…
…a ridge of rock in the sea formed by the growth and deposit of coral…
…a brightly coloured venomous snake of the cobra family, typically having conspicuous bands of red, yellow, white, and black…
…a common fungal disease of trees and shrubs, appearing as numerous minute pink or dark red cushion-like bodies on the twigs and branches and causing dieback…
…a tropical or subtropical thorny shrub or tree with showy red or orange flowers…
…a colonial coral-like hydrozoan, the heavy external skeleton of which forms reefs. The polyps bear nematocysts which can inflict painful stings…
…a fungus which produces a fruiting body composed of upright branching finger-like projections which resemble coral, found in both Eurasia and North America…
…a resort and commercial city in southeastern Florida, just southwest of Miami, on Biscayne Bay; population 42,781 (est. 2008)…
…a residential city in southeastern Florida; population 125,783 (est. 2008)…
…a coral with sturdy antler-like branches, found in shallow waters throughout the Caribbean…
…a harmless snake that mimics the bright coloration of the venomous coral snakes…
…a tropical coral which forms narrow parallel calcareous tubes linked by transverse plates…
…a branching pinkish-red horny coral which is used in jewellery…
…a common fungal disease of trees and shrubs, appearing as numerous minute pink or dark red cushion-like bodies on the twigs and branches and causing dieback…
